Honors & Awards
- Received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group
- Honored as one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades in 2025, ranking in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for overall clinical performance.
- Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as “high performing” in orthopedics, congestive heart failure and diabetes in its 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings.
- Recognized by Becker’s Healthcare Review as one of the 100 Great Community Hospitals in the nation
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Honored by Healthgrades with its 2026 Specialty Excellence Awards:
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Critical Care Award™ (three years in a row)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Gastrointestinal Care Award™ (three years in a row)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Pulmonary Care Award™ (two years in a row)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care Award™ (two years in a row)
- Gastrointestinal Care Excellence Award, ranking in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide
- Gastrointestinal Surgery Excellence Award, ranking in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide
- Neurosciences Excellence Award, ranking in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide (three years in a row)
- Surgical Care Excellence Award, ranking in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide (two years in a row)
- Healthgrades ranked RWJUH Somerset in the top 3 in New Jersey for Gastrointestinal Medical Care, Neuroscience Care and Stroke Care and in the top 5 in New Jersey for Critical Care, Gastrointestinal Care and Pulmonary Care.
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Earned Healthgrades rating of 5-stars for colorectal surgeries, vaginal delivery and C-section delivery and the treatment of heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, COPD, pneumonia, GI bleeds, bowel obstructions, sepsis, respiratory failure and hip fractures.
- Nationally recognized as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
- Designated as a “Leader in LGBTQ Health Care Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign.
- Earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for total knee and total hip replacement surgery and its acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) program.
- Designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
- Honored with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines®‐Stroke GOLD PLUS Achievement Award.
- Recognized as a NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) hospital.
- The Sanofi US Breast Care Program has achieved full accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers and has been named a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
- Most Wired recognition from The College of Health Care Information Management Executives (CHIME).
